The InfoQ Podcast

In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/34duS7G Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 - August 17, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

The container runtime is software that executes containers and manages container images. Today, when many people think about a container runtime, they're likely thinking of Docker. However, Docker is more a set of tools for building, packaging, sharing, and running a container via Docker Daemon that then makes syscalls to another tool like containerd. Containerd, in turn, makes calls to an implementation like runc that lays down the file system for the container and is the executor for the process. Today, on The InfoQ Podcast Wes Reisz talks with Phil Estes, one of the containerd maintainers, about container runtimes. The two discuss the significance (in detail) of the announcement that dockerhsim will soon be deprecated in Kubernetes, the complete container runtime stack, work the Open Container Initiative (OCI) is doing today on a third container spec around registries, and more. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uUdoZC Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 - August 17, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

The Open Policy Agent is used for policy decision-making across the stack. In the case of Kubernetes, it is often used as an admission controller to protect the API Server with dynamic rules that don’t require recompilation to introduce. Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall (two of the Open Policy Agent Project creators). The three talk about the project, including things like architecture, origin, community, the policy language (Rego), and, of course, performance. The podcast is an introduction to how OPA can is used across the stack for policy decisioning. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3vkqboi Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 - August 17, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uQX9fD Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this podcast Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the role of DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE), day 2 operations, and the importance of building observability into applications and platforms. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3mdMSHa Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this podcast Matthew Clark, Head Of Architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3u2I8H5 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this podcast Ted Young, director of developer education at Lightstep, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: observability (and the three pillars), the OpenTelemetry CNCF sandbox project and the 1.0 release, and how to build an effective telemetry collection platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3eWqJvF Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

Several years ago, today's guest Michael Feathers published a book called Working Effectively with Legacy Code. This book introduced ways of wrangling large codebases. In the book, Feather's discussed leveraging unit tests to introduce--not only a validation of correctness but also-- documentation on a system's operation, ways to decouple/modularize monolithic code, and 24 different techniques to introduce change safely. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the book. The two spend some time reviewing key concepts from the book and then discuss how the techniques can be applied today. The two wrap with a discussion on what might change in a new version of the book. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qREZrL Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - March 16, 2021 - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder Research, sits down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. They discuss: the history of Reinforcement Learning (RL); the application of RL in fields such as robotics and content discovery; scaling RL models and running them in production; and ethical considerations for RL. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uylAPz Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - March 16, 2021 - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this podcast Clare Liguori, Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qwCCLy Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - March 16, 2021 - April 13, 2021 - June 22, 2021 - July 20, 2021 QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 17-28, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq